Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

Web Development

• Adding OpenID to Your Web Site in Conjunction with ASP.NET Membership (Dan Hounshell)
• Showing Some MVC Support (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #21 - Fake the Data Context (Stephen Walther)

Silverlight

• Brad Abrams - Program Manager .NET Framework on Silverlight and .NET (Schalk Neethling)
• Bubbly Skin Updated for Beta 2 (Corrina Barber)
• Silverlight 2 + NHibernate.LINQ == Sweet (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• StructureMap: Medium-Level Usage Scenarios (Chad Myers)
• Exposing Custom Performance Counters in .NET (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Lambda and Scope in C# (Leon)

Design / Methodology

• Too-Smart-Business-Object Anti-Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Ward’s Wiki Is Still a Great Resource (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Bellware Driven Design (Greg Young)
• Patterns for Using Distributed Hash Tables (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Distributed in Memory Cache / Storage (Oren Eini)
• PowerShell Laptop Stickers (Jeffrey Snover)
• Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Windows Live Messenger Content (Chris)
• Local Tweets on AIR (Sarah Perez)
• New Show: Countdown to PDC2008 (Mike Swanson)

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 253 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: July 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for July 20, 2008 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

Requirements Debate

• It’s Not the Client’s Job to Know What He Needs - It’s Our Job to Find Out (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Doctors We Ain’t (Dave Laribee)

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 4 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Ward Bell and I Wade Into O/R Mapping Issues (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How Microsoft’s p&p Teams Do Daily Standup Meetings (Ade Miller)
• Too Much Quality (Jacob Proffitt)
• Enterprise Architect - Joke or Joker? (Richard Veryard)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Read-Write Cache and Practical Concurrency Patterns: Thread-Local Cache (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Channel 9 - C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team (Granville Barnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #region. Sliced Bread or Sliced Worms? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code (Matthew Podwysocki) – Link of the Day
• Anonymous Delegates, How I Love Thee (Josh Twist)
• Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code (Brad Abrams)
• CLR Security Team CodePlex Site (Shawn F.)
• Looking at EF Performance - Some Surprises (Julie Lerman)
• Mocking Expensive Template Methods (Davy Brion)
• Back to Basics - Everyone Remember Where We Parked (That Memory)! (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Things I Like Better About NetBeans Than Visual Studio (Jim Hoffman)
• Scrubbing Null Values From a DataReader (John Papa)
• How to Navigate Around Your Code in Visual Studio (Ged Mead)
• Mastering F# Lists (Chris Smith)
• Identity Framework for .NET (René Løhde)
• MSDN Code Gallery - Functional C# - Release: v0.1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning WPF with BabySmash - MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• How About Some LIVE Silverlight Service Debugging? (Tim Heuer)
• Animation Hands on Lab for Silverlight 2 (Adam Kinney)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #17 - How to Run an ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• SubSonic: New Code Samples and a SubStage Walkthrough (Rob Conery)
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls (Rick Strahl)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to SPARSE Columns (Pinal Dave)
• Installing Clustered SQL Servers - Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets (Chad Boyd)
• Observations on Embedded Databases (Oren Eini)

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Plug-In for Windows Live Writer (Frank La Vigne)
• Find Nearby Events with Windows Live Writer Search Mobile and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Rachel Appel (Chris Williams)

Miscellaneous

• My First-Hand Experience with Microsoft Surface (Archis Gore)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 3 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows XP Ain’t the Only OS Retiring This Year: Goodbye Windows 3.11 (Brad Linder)
• The Phone Screen (Alex Mueller)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #87 (Tim Boland)
• Link Listing - July 9, 2008 and Link Listing - July 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #245 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 - Early Edition (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #49 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #134 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Amazing Introduction to NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
• VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling (Tony Davis)
• DimeCast #20 - Testing Abstract Classes with Rhino Mocks (Derik Whittaker)
• A Sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder and Non Paged CLR Host (Roy Osherove)
• Mocking the LINQ to SQL Data Context (Andrew Tokeley)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio Using T4 Templates - Screencast and Sample (David Hayden)
• Keeping LINQ Code Healthy (K. Scott Allen)
• Use This NHibernate Wrapper to Keep Your Repository Classes Simple (Jeffrey Palermo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spartan Programming (Jeff Atwood)
• Design Patterns - A Deep Dive 3 (Sunny Chaganty)
• Taking on Dependencies (Eric Gunnerson)
• Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators (Dave Laribee)
• Testing the NuSoft Framework (Joel Ross)

Silverlight / WPF

• Tip: Maximal and Minimal Zoom Level in the MultiscaleImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)
• Tip of the Day #15 - Communicating Between JavaScript and Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player (David)
• Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Video Blog: TooltipService and Custom ToolTip (Corey Miller)
• Newton Physics Extensions for WPF (Chris Cavanagh)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #15 - Pass Browser Cookies and Server Variables as Action Parameters (Stephen Walther)
• Three Quick Ways to Avoid Widows (Karl Swedberg)
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 2.0 (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls (Joe Stagner)
• SubSonic 2.1 Released (Rob Conery)
• User Input in Sheep’s Clothing (Phil Haack)

SharePoint

• Custom Event Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Branding SharePoint - Part 3: Changing the Look and Feel of SharePoint Components - Intro and Web Parts (Heather Solomon)

SQL Server

• Did You Know the History of SQL Server? (Kalen Delaney)

Miscellaneous

• jpboodhoo.com Launches (finally)!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Everyone Could Use a SecondBrain (Bob Walsh)
• 3 More Ways to Supercharge Firefox (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Microsoft Certified Architect Program (Bill Zack)
• Recipe for Making an MVP (Charles Sterling)

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #85 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: July 8, 2008 and Innovation Notes: July 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for July 9. 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 8, 2008 — #320 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #132 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik RadControls for WPF Beta 2 (Martin Mihaylov)
• How to Load CAL Modules from a Website (or Other Locations) (Erwin Vandervalk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring with ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# Fixes I Often Use and Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt Outs - Building the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5) (Peter Kellner)
• Using the Entity Framework in a Layered Architecture (John Papa)
• Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman)
• MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates (Andrew Stopford)
• Parallel Extensions - Using Futures to Calculate Pi in Hexidecimal (Bart de Smet)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 11 of N (Sam Gentile) – Nice post on WCF (pronounced Indigo) - Link of the Day
• C# Singleton Pattern vs. Static Classes (Sam Allen)
• Exploring MEF Extensibility Points (Sidar Ok)
• Back to Basics - Do Namespace Using Directives Affect Assembly Loading? (Scott Hanselman)
• Basic MSBuild Script (Davy Brion)

Design / Methodology

• Swimming Upstream Is Hazardous (K. Scott Allen)
• The Immaturity of In Browser Testing (Jay Fields)
• Get Your Func On (Karl Seguin)
• Beauty vs. Usability - A Tale of Two Masters (Sara Chipps)

Web Development

• ASP.NET ViewState - Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
• Is Your Website Ready for IE8? (J. Barnes)
• Kill Your Users Table (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET and Dynamic Languages (Jimmy Schementi)

SQL Server

• SQL Server 2008 - Introduction to New Feature of Backup Compression and Deprecated DataType vardecimal (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Why Can’t Microsoft Ship Open Source Software? (Jeff Atwood)
• Identi.ca Early Adopter Tips (Sara Perez)
• Book Review: IT Architectures and Middleware (2nd Edition) and Book Review: The Sciences of the Artificial (3rd Edition) (Evan Hoff)
• PowerShell Script Repository and Code Signing (Joel Bennett)
• Self-Evangelism (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Link-O-Rama

• Silverlight News for July 3, 2008 and Silverlight News for July 4, 2008 (Martin Mihaylov)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 4, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Find #84 (Tim Boland)
• Visual Studio Links #46 and Visual Studio Links #47 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2008 and LINKBLOG for July 4, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.07.04 (gOODiDEA)
• The Morning Brew #129 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Inter-Column Communication in a WPF GridView (Marlon Grech)
• Talking About Prism with InfoQ (Glenn Block)
• Silverlight DevNuggets Episode 2 Is Now Up (Pete Brown)
• Using Pub/Sub and the Observer Pattern in Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 2) Navigation (Pete Brown)
• Free Silverlight 2 Refcard From DZone (Wei-Ling Chen)
• Flash One Step Closer to Being Indexable - Is Silverlight Next? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• PDF for Silverlight (Amyuni Tech)
• Silverlight Password Box (Maciej Gren)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Lap Around Microsoft "Velocity" - Cache It NOW! (Bart de Smet)
• Implementing IUpdatable (Part 1) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Architecting LINQ to SQL, Part 10 (Ian Cooper)
• Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released (Matt Hinze)
• Checking Your Source Code and Comments (John Kilmister)

SQL Server

• Database Performance: The Web Layer (Ken Downs)
• SQL Server Cheatsheet (Pinal Dave)

Design / Methodology

• Gunther Lenz on "Practical Software Factories with .NET" (Aslam Khan)
• ASP.NET Design Patterns, Test Driven Development and Agile Development Book List (Stephen Walther)
• What Topics Are Architects Interested In? (Bill Zack)
• Inherit to Be Reused, Not to Reuse (Peter Provost)
• The Collective Agile Discussion (David Starr)
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 10 of N (Sam Gentile)

Web Development

• Abidar - ASP.NET Task Scheduling Framework (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Working with ASP.NET MVC and MvcContrib (Alex Mueller)
• How to Programmatically Tell If an IIS AppPool Is 32-bit or 64-bit (Scott Hanselman)
• Extending ASP.NET MVC OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute - Adding Substitution (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)

Miscellaneous

• Listen to Podcasts in Less Time (Jeff Atwood)
• Free Security Book: HAC (Josh Poley)
• Selecting a SharePoint List in a Webpart Toolpart (Ton Stegeman)
• Famous Quotes from Bill Gates - Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• 13 FriendFeed Tools for Twitter Refugees (Calley Nye)
• Relativism, Crucibles and Criticism (Matt Hinze)
• Soft Skills for the Programmer (Brian Reindel)
• ALT.NET Canada Open Spaces Is Now Taking Requests (Kyle Baley)

Green News

• Tesla 4-Door Model S Sedan Will Be $60,000 (Jason Chen)
• Why I’m Buying a Tesla Sedan (Robert Scoble)
• Tesla Confirms Model S Sedan, 225-Mile Range and $60k (Damon Lavrinc) – Link of the Day
• Getting Wrapped Up in Solar Textiles (Sarah H. Wright)

Link-O-Rama

• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #44 (Darren Stokes)
• Daily Find #82 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight News for July 1, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• LINKBLOG for June 30, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• WMOC#9 - Lambdas and Extension Method Scoping and WSDAC#9 - Command Line DSL the Ultimate! (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight Cream for June 30, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #126 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing - June 30, 2008 (Christopher Steen)

Book of the Day